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RB 60/00071 (Report on the) Ukaparinga (Unaparinga) copper mine, Williamstown.
Copper carbonates are sporadically distributed throughout steeply dipping mica schist in a zone up to about 70 ft. wide. The host rocks have been regarded as overturned metamorphosed Burra Group (Torrensian) beds resting on the Aldgate Sandstone...-
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Published: 05 Apr 1965
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RB 82/00056 Interpretation of regional geophysical data in the Olary region, South Australia.
Gravity and detailed aeromagnetic data, as summarised in the Metallic Exploration Index Series for CURNAMONA and OLARY, are interpreted. Other detailed geophysical and geological work is incorporated. The interpretation aims to define the areal...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1986
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Boolooroo Goldfield. Annual reports to licence expiry for the period 24/11/1995 to 14/3/2006.
Protracted exploration undertaken by an individual mineral prospector over a small area of rugged topography located in the north-central Flinders Ranges, approximately 25 km north-east of Leigh Creek, has addressed a number of potentially economic...-
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Published: 14 Mar 1906
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mutooroo (the Olary Creek Project). Annual reports for the period 15/11/2005 to 7/2/2019.
An area centred ~50 km south west of Cockburn is being explored for possible economic base and precious metal mineralisation that may have formed in buried Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks, as well as for any secondary uranium mineralisation that may...-
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Data release - as updated : Mount Grainger (part of the Flinders Ranges Diamond Project and the Nackara Arc Gold Project). Combined annual reports and annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 6/2/2008 to 5/2/2017.
An area centred ~40 km east of Peterborough in the vicinity of Mount Grainger Goldfield has continued to be explored for possible small diamondiferous kimberlite bodies and for buried economic stratabound, structurally controlled and disseminated...-
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Published: 19 Sep 1916
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Braemar. Annual reports plus third partial surrender report to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 10/12/2007 to 9/12/2018.
The subject EL 3998 Braemar, in its eastern part, covers a 20 km long, high amplitude aeromagnetic anomaly located within the northern part of the Adelaide Fold Belt, that overlies a large antiformal fold in the Adelaidean metasedimentary cover which...-
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Holowilena South (part of the Hawker Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/10/2006 to 26/10/2014.
An area centred ~45 km east-southeast of Hawker was taken up to explore the stratabound, epigenetic copper resource potential of historic small copper workings located along a NW trending fault zone disrupting Adelaidean metasediments of the Burra and...-
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Published: 25 Oct 1914
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Hallett. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/5/2013 to 22/5/2018.
Exploration for possible buried vein style copper-gold mineralisation, that may have formed in contact metamorphosed hornfelsic rocks adjacent to an inferred buried Delamerian or younger mafic intrusive body, has been conducted in a preliminary...-
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Published: 22 May 1918
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Peake and Denison Ranges. Progress reports and technical reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 17/2/1969 to 4/5/1971.
An airborne magnetic/radiometric survey was flown over the licence in 1969. Three anomalies located near Peake Homestead Ruins and the Coppertop mine gave disappointing ground survey uranium responses from traverses made with a hand-held...-
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Mount Charles. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 9/12/1991 to 26/10/1992.
Possible economic epithermal/hydrothermal uranium and base metal deposits, hosted by Early to Middle Proterozoic meta-igneous and metasedimentary basement rocks partly concealed by Mesozoic and Cainozoic cover in the north-eastern Peake and Denison...-
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Published: 13 Nov 1992
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Wadnaminga and Outalpa (the Olary JV Project, later renamed the Blue Rose Project). Joint annual reports for the period 19/7/2008 to 18/7/2018.
During Year 12 of the Olary JV Project (2008-2009), field work was undertaken only on EL 3849 Outalpa to make up for the earlier underspending on that licence relative to commitments. In early 2009, a ground radioactivity survey was acquired using a...-
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Published: 27 Nov 1918
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Angaston. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 11/12/1981 to 10/12/1984.
As part of a base metal exploration programme looking for possible stratabound or exhalative/hydrothermal deposits in Cambrian metasediments, which was undertaken approximately 75 km north-east of Adelaide, stream sediment sampling along the base of...-
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Published: 07 Mar 1985
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Data release - as updated : Mutooroo (part of the Border Project). Annual reports [but excluding three separately held joint annual reports] and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 3/4/2007 to 18/4/2020.
During licence Year 11 (2007-2008), exploration activities on renewed EL 3745 included: • acquiring 1.9 line km of TEM profiles at Dingo prospect; • acquiring 21.4 line km of ground magnetic survey coverage at 1-metre station spacing on three...-
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-21 - Yerelina Gladstone Mining Field sediment-hosted and structurally controlled hydrothermal/replacement style stratabound base metal prospects. Final report.
High-grade silver-lead-zinc mineralisation formed within the Neoproterozoic Tapley Hill Formation (THF) was historically mined 100 years ago at Yerelina in the northern Flinders Ranges. Despite the existence of numerous poorly documented small-scale...-
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Published: 08 Dec 1915
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Mutooroo Ridge. Progress reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 18/4/1977 to 17/4/1978.
Newmont Mining used a ground magnetic survey, an IP survey and a soil geochemical survey to select sites at the Mutooroo Ridge copper prospect for its subsequent drilling during May and October 1977 of 2 inclined, percussion precollared diamond cored...-
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Baratta East. Progress reports to licence surrender for the period 18/6/1970 to 30/9/1971.
In a search for extensions of the Baratta silver-lead mining field mineralisation, eastwards under alluvial cover, a 7 miles long x 3 miles wide grid was laid out over the inferred most favourable location for a buried strike extension of the host...-
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RB_83/00107 Geological Society of Australia Abstracts No.10, Adelaide Geosyncline, Sedimentary Environments and Tectonic Settings, Symposium A.M.F. Adelaide Dec 9, 1983
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Published: 01 Dec 1983
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Crystal Brook, Port Broughton, Port Pirie, Mundoora and Winninnowie (the Moonta North Project). Annual reports and combined annual reports for the period 19/10/2000 to 1/8/2008.
Buried basement-hosted iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) mineralisation of either Moonta-Wallaroo or Olympic Dam style is the target of exploration across a number of scattered Exploration Licences trending from Port Broughton in the south to...-
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Published: 18 Sep 1908
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Douglas Creek (part of the Peake and Denison IOCG Project). Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 21/9/2000 to 30/4/2010.
Rio Tinto Exploration Pty Ltd (Rio Tinto) took up the subject tenement at Douglas Creek, located ~ 20 km east of the central Peake and Denison Ranges, to explore the Palaeoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic metamorphic basement rock sequence that it...-
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Olary (latterly part of the Olary Project). Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 21/1/2008 to 20/01/2015.
A large area located immediately south and south-west of Olary has been explored initially for possible economic buried primary epithermal to mesothermal copper-gold and gold only mineralisation that might have formed in Adelaidean and older bedrock,...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1915
